Sentence examples for voluntary gesture from inspiring English sources

Enforced at the beginning, exile later became a voluntary gesture and, after the amnesty of 1859, an act of pride.

After Senator Jim Jeffords's switch from the Republican side gave the Democrats control, their very first act was an entirely voluntary gesture of good faith to their adversaries.

"It was agreed that the statue will be handed over to Turkey as a voluntary gesture of friendship," the German government said after weeks of negotiations between the countries' foreign ministries.

Watching our patient compulsively rearranging the covers on her bed, I recognized the same attempts to use natural and voluntary gestures to mask compulsive and involuntary movements.

"This is voluntary," Valentine said, gesturing to a group of about 30 players stretching in T-shirts and shorts.

There has also been a series of impressive voluntary campaigns and gestures, from Refugees Welcome – a scheme for sharing homes with those fleeing conflict and persecution described as "an Airbnb for refugees" – to a professional football club fielding a third team made up entirely of refugees.

Kourash Niknam, the sole Zoroastrian MP in Iran's parliament, insisted the gesture was voluntary.

But what might have been perceived as a magnanimous gesture — a voluntary step down the career ladder out of concern for the city's children — quickly became a debacle when the school board made it clear that the job was not his for the taking.

The voluntary, intentional nature of gesture use has been described in all species of great ape.

But VeriChip also says that it intends to build the market with voluntary programs like VeriMed, a gesture to privacy concerns that has done little to mollify critics.

But conservatives romanticize charity (which former President George H. W. Bush called "a thousand points of light") when they view it as a substitute for government support, and argue that voluntary donations and good will gestures can adequately raise funds for K-12 education, feed the hungry, house the homeless, or pay for medicine, hospitals, and doctors' bills.